"At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far."

-- Muhammad Ali

#Nice Quotes #Humble Quotes #Humility Quotes

“Nature makes penicillin; I just found it.”
“Leadership is neither showmanship nor dictatorship. Leadership is a stewardship and a partnership.”
“The fact is that Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable-even legally actionable-to Westerners. Chinese mothers can say to their daughters, "Hey fatty-lose some weight." By contrast, Western parents have to tiptoe around the issue, talking in terms of "health" and never ever mentioning the f-word, and their kids still end up in therapy for eating disorders and negative self image.”

Source : Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, p.10, Bloomsbury Publishing
“I think people are surprised to learn that Im pretty goofy and pretty funny.”
“As with anything you set out to learn in life, you don't get from point A to point Z without touching upon all those letters in between.”
“I feel confident that it will always keep everybody guessing, and yet not in that weird, maddening way where it's like, "Oh, come on, guys!" I think you will be freaked out by the end. I really do. I don't think you'll see it coming at all.”
“Credibility is what it is ALL about...”
“How can anyone be interested in war? - that glorious pursuit of annihilation with its ceremonious bellowings and trumpetings over the mangling of human bones and muscles and organs and eyes, its inconceivable agonies which could have been prevented by a few well-chosen, reasonable words. How, why, did this unnecessary business begin? Why does anyone want to read about it - this redundant human madness which men accept as inevitable?”

Source : "The Strange Necessity" by Margaret Caroline Anderson, (part 1), 1969.

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